Teaching evidence-based nursing practice to student nurses in developing countries: strategies for novice nurse educators
Abstract
Introduction
Globally, Evidence based nursing practice (EBNP) is becoming an expected norm for nursing practice. The small-scale activities surrounding this practice in African countries indicate a need for better approaches to enhance EBNP. One of these approaches is strengthening nursing education through EBNP education.
Objectives
The purpose of this paper is to provide strategies to African novice nurse educators to teach EBNP, with the ultimate goal of promoting it in clinical settings when the student nurses enter professional practice.
Methods
This is a discussion paper based on the results of a systematic review.
Results
In this paper, the authors create an understanding of EBNP, describe the state of nursing education in Africa, and propose the EBNP content to be taught as well as how to teach it.
Conclusions
Emphasis is on educational strategies that create student engagement, promote critical thinking, unite clinical and classroom settings, and are cost-effective within the context of Africa.
Research funding: None declared.
Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Competing interests: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individuals included in this study.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Editorial
- A note of gratitude
- Research Articles
- Assessing baccalaureate nursing students’ knowledge and attitudes of social determinants of health after a health equity simulation
- Use of phenomenography in nursing education research
- A comparison of RN licensure test plans: the United States and China with implications for the Chinese nursing licensure exam
- From practical nurse to bachelor of nursing student: bridging the transition
- A caring model for nursing education
- Nurse and midwife educators’ experiences of translating teaching methodology knowledge into practice in Rwanda
- Nursing student-patient relationship – a 10-year comparison study in Finland
- An educational intervention to promote civility in nursing: a pilot study
- Self-compassion in undergraduate nursing: an integrative review
- Seeking transformation: how students in nursing view their academic writing context – a qualitative systematic review
- Assessing knowledge of genomic concepts among Canadian nursing students and faculty
- Nurse students’ attitudes toward the nursing profession after witnessing workplace violence
- The effectiveness of scenario-based learning to develop patient safety behavior in first year nursing students
- Impact of an extracurricular, student-led journal club on evidence-based practice among baccalaureate nursing students
- Nursing students’ engagement and experiences with virtual reality in an undergraduate bioscience course
- Concept-based curriculum: design and implementation strategies
- Assessing the impact of mentorship on nurses’ and midwives’ knowledge and self-efficacy in managing postpartum hemorrhage
- Teaching evidence-based nursing practice to student nurses in developing countries: strategies for novice nurse educators
- Nursing students’ perceptions of and experiences coping with stress in clinical practice
- Unpacking the hidden curriculum in nursing education: clinical placements abroad
- Facilitating and hindering experiences to the development of humanistic caring in the academic and clinical settings: an interpretive phenomenological study with nursing students and nurses
- Resilience in first and second semester baccalaureate nursing students
- Clinical stress among undergraduate nursing students: perceptions of clinical nursing faculty
- The potential for learning within hospital learning communities: the interplay between nursing practice and education to support research ability
- Embracing evidence-based nursing and informational literacy through an innovative undergraduate collaborative project
- The effect of linguistic modification on English as a second language (ESL) nursing student retention
- Perceived stress, physiological stress reactivity, and exit exam performance in a prelicensure Bachelor of Science nursing program
- A Comparative Analysis of Teaching and Evaluation Methods in Nurse Practitioner Education Programs in Australia, Canada, Finland, Norway, the Netherlands and USA
- Gett’n on the bus: evaluation of Sentinel City®3.0 virtual simulation in community/population health clinical placement
- Intentional learning: a student-centered pedagogy
- Journey to simulation program accreditation
- Effect of a rapid e-learning module and brief interprofessional simulation event on medical and nursing student collaborative attitudes and behaviors
- Using Participatory Action Research to Explore the Nursing Academic Work Environment
- Theoretical Approaches to Studying Incivility in Nursing Education
- Students’ Self-assessed Competence Levels during Nursing Education Continuum – A Cross-sectional Survey
- Re-imaging Clinical Education: The Interdependence of the Self-Regulated Clinical Teacher and Nursing Student
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